Roger Williams: “A recorded vote has been requested and a roll call vote is ordered.”

American small businesses are the engines of our economy, they are the entrepreneurs and they make America move and grow.

All of us are going to get the message out. It really has great timing from our standpoint, because now we can compare socialism, Marxism, communism with what Texas values are all about and American values: capitalism and free markets.

Industries like construction are particularly affected, with the projection showing the need for over 500,000 additional workers annually.

These 700 regulations have placed over $440 billion, that is with a B, over $440 billion on the small businesses of America.